Federal Aviation

Situational Awareness Administration

A Key to Being Safe

Presented to:
WATS 2018
By: Peggy Hurlbert
Date:
April 17, 2018

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Situational Awareness – A Key to Being Safe

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•Then came the wings…….

•Now What
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What have I gotten myself into ?????

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 Our knowledge, experience and education enable us to understand
what is going on around us and helps us to determine if it is safe. This
means that everyone's situational awareness is individually and
potentially different. Situational awareness enables an individual to
make the most appropriate decision to ensure their own safety and that
of others. It requires an individual to have:
 an awareness/perception of the environment in which they work and
the consequent hazards/threats
 the comprehension to evaluate the situation and potential risks from
hazards/threats
 the ability to respond in an appropriate manner to avoid the risks or
reduce their impact ahead.

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Look for opportunity to
include situational
awareness best practices
in training and scenarios
How to develop, how to
maintain, how you lose it
and how to get it back

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 SA & RA
Situational Awareness Risk Analysis

• Situational Awareness provides for an increased

awareness of risk which in turn allows for the
development of precautions and strategies to better
manage the risk. An effective safety culture is
dependent on an understanding of risk factors and
effective mitigation of those risks.

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RISK ANALYSIS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

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You can always improve your SA
Learn to predict events
Take time to recognize your surroundings, to evaluate and understand the
situation
Trust your feelings; continually assess your situation
Avoid complacency
Prevent fatigue
Monitor the performance of others; limit situational overload

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If you have trained for a situation, you are more likely to execute the
correct actions when it occurs in real life. This is partly because you
know what the situation looks like and can anticipate what is going
to happen. This is why in flight training, we repeat exercises where a
critical response is required.
When you train; look for every opportunity to include
situational awareness in your program; in your scenarios
and in your procedures.
Call attention to how improved situational awareness
provides more effective response in all we do.

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